Video Game / Morimiya Middle School Shooting

Morimiya Middle School Shooting is a freeware RPG created by eric806359 using RPG Maker MV. It was released on December 2018.

Its plot follows a young girl with a Dark and Troubled Past. Her mother hung herself in the bathroom, and the girl was traumatized when she walked in on her as she did this. As such, she's been living all by herself with her alcoholic father until he mysteriously disappears one day, leaving only his guns behind. She's developed a deep hatred of those who ignore her, an equally deep hatred of those who have things she doesn't, and homicidal urges. Hearing about cases of mass murder, combined with her learning how to make pipe bombs, ultimately gives her one goal in mind: to go on a killing spree at her school: the titular Morimiya Middle School.

It's essentially a mix Postal, Hatred, and Yandere Simulator. It appears to be inspired by Super Columbine Massacre RPG!, but then again, who knows what inspired it?

On January 27th 2024, (6 years after the game release) the developer released version 1.2b, where he finally delivers his promise of delivering a hard mode, where the responding cops appear on the scene that shoot and kill the protagonist early, new guns, melee combat, and more.

The old translated version can be downloaded here.

The new non-translated version can be downloaded here.

Morimiya Middle School Shooting provides examples of:

• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Victims will ask you to spare their lives.
• A.K.A.-47: Few of the guns have full or accurate names, with only the Type 56 and Tec-9 correctly labeled. The developer has said this is to avoid lawsuits from firearms manufacturers.
• Alcoholic Parent: The shooter's father began abusing alcohol after the mother killed herself.

• Artistic License – Law: The game is apparently set in an alternate history world where Japan has the same gun laws as the United States. In reality, there has never been a school shooting in Japanese history (there have been school stabbings and mass shootings, however, although they're very rare) because of their strict gun laws.
• Asshole Victim: In almost all of the endings, the shooter gets her comeuppance, either getting stabbed to death, blown up, or arrested feeling like a failure. Even in the "good" ending, she still gets arrested (where she will almost certainly be swiftly executed, given Japan's no-nonsense justice system).
• Axes at School: It's a school shooting-themed game, what did you expect? Naturally there are references to several other mass murder sprees that happened at other schools prior to the events of the game.
• The Bad Guy Wins: In the "good" ending, the shooter surrenders to the police. In her internal monologue, she sounds very content with herself.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: Invoked; the shooter remarks in the opening cutscene and in optional dialogue that they were incredibly quiet and lonely, and expresses the belief that it will be all the more shocking when she commits her shooting spree.
• Black Comedy: Although this game takes itself dead seriously and plays everything completely straight, there is one brief moment of levity when the shooter arrives at the school. She bumps into a bystander and they share an awkward silence before the bystander scurries away in fear upon noticing her rifle. It's the only person the shooter spares.
  • The security guard at the school entrance gate tells the shooter that she can't bring a gun into school because it's a gun free zone. She shoots him first.
• Bond One-Liner: Similar to Postal Dude, the shooter shouts out a lot of cheesy one-liners while going on her killing spree.
  Die! Kill!
  Shut up and die!
  School's over!
  You will know my pain!
  I won't hide anymore!
  You're all gonna die!
  Bet you didn't think this would happen!
  I was born to kill you all!
  You'll get what you deserve!
  Your families will love this!
• Boring, but Practical: The Calico M900 uses only 9mm ammo and thus the player may have to shoot victims multiple times, but the high magazine capacity and low recoil makes it easy to land continuous hits and move from victim to victim without requiring a reload.
• Bottomless Magazines: Zig-zagged; The weapons your character uses all have realistic and accurate ammo sizes per magazine, but the magazines themselves are infinite.
• Bragging Rights Reward: Killing 60 people in one go unlocks an AR-15 modified with a bump stock, increasing its rate of fire. Also, completing the training minigame in under 13 seconds unlocks a perk that doubles your accuracy while moving.
• Deadpan Snarker: The shooter, surprisingly.
  School Guard: "I-Is that a gun?! You can't enter with that!"
  Shooter: "Oh really?"
• Despair Speech: Much of the shooter's Motive Rant consists of them talking about how horrible their life is and how it led them to want to kill everyone.
• Disappeared Dad: The shooter's father vanished for unknown reasons before the game's events. It is implied that he, like his wife, killed himself.
• Driven to Suicide: Her mother hung herself in the bathroom when the shooter was a young girl.
  • Averted for the shooter herself. While mass shooters usually kill themselves, the protagonist refuses to be "just another suicide statistic" like her mother. She can still kill herself on accident, however.
• Easter Egg: If the player faces the wall to the left of the gun safe and presses the Z button ten times, they're awarded with one million points, enabling them to buy every upgrade and weapon.
• Epic Fail: You can kill yourself by walking into your own pipe bomb.
• Faking the Dead: Students will throw themselves to the ground in an apparent attempt at playing dead.
• Freudian Excuse: The shooter's home life is incredibly chaotic, with her mother having killed themselves and her father walking out on her entirely, letting her fend for herself. It's implied that it hadn't been very cheery prior to that, either.
• Game-Favored Gender: Killing schoolgirls and female teachers nets more points than schoolboys or male teachers. Is that sexist against females, or males?
• Heroic Bystander: All of the male teachers will attempt to restrain you using a man catcher, while female teachers whistle for help. Occasionally, some of the male students may attempt to pin down the player.
• Kick the Dog: The school guard is likely the only person who ever showed the shooter sympathy, but she guns him down without a word anyway.
• Loners Are Freaks: The shooter mentions having no friends and not being close to anyone at all.
• Multiple Endings: The player can either get arrested by police, detained by teachers, blown up with their own pipe bomb, or stabbed to death by a yandere.
• Not Afraid to Die: The shooter's monologues make it clear that she ultimately doesn't care if she lives or dies – she just wants to take down as many people as possible with her.
• No Name Given: Unlike all other of eric806359's mascots, the shooter has never been given a name. Many fans have dubbed her "Shooter-chan" or "Not Impor-tan".
• One-Woman Army: In an upcoming update, the player will be able to do battle with responding law enforcement, where they will presumably be gunning dozens of cops down.
• The Resenter: The main motivation of the shooter consists of envy of others for living happier lives than her and her desire to kill people to spite them.
• Ripped from the Headlines: The game blatantly takes inspiration from real life school shootings and rampage attacks, referencing several in ways both subtle and overt.
  • Some of the player character's Motive Rant is taken from female spree killer Olga Hepnarová.
  • If the player character makes it to the art room on the third floor of the school, they can find drawings of various infamous mass murderers, like Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, Seung-Hui Cho, Charles Whitman, Brenda Spencer, and Matti Juhani Saari.
• Shout-Out: The yandere character's overworld sprite resembles Ayano Aishi in what may or may not be a Take That!.
• Spree Killer: The player character, of course.
• Stamina Burn: Teachers or students attempting to restrain the player will drain their stamina. Since stamina informally doubles as health, this can lead to the player getting a game over quickly if they've ran too much.
• Straw Nihilist: You can read the shooter's poetry scattered around her home, to give insight on how just how much of a lost a soul she is. "A world without god. A world without souls. Creatures with empty hearts. Thousands and millions and billions. The number only continues to increase. A terrifyingly empty, meaningless world."
• Taught by Television: In an instance of Canon Welding, the shooter was inspired by seeing another one of eric806359's characters, a mass stabber named Yūmi Tōjō from "Tag in the Hallway", on the news. She also got the pipe bomb idea from another widely-publicized domestic terrorist.
• Talking Down the Suicidal: The school security guard tries to talk the shooter into giving up their weapon and stopping their rampage before it begins. She refuses to listen and kills him first.
• Teens Are Monsters: The game is set in a middle school, meaning the shooter is at most 15.
• Villain Protagonist: You play as the girl shooting up Morimiya Middle School.
• Yandere: There's a unique enemy in the game who is a good old fashioned anime yandere, who tries to stab the player to death to defend her senpai.
• You Will Be Spared: As the shooter walks to their school, they nonverbally spare a fellow student, staring at them a moment before resuming their walk towards the school.